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| - While Vegas these days is primarily known for facsimile star-chef restaurants and "god knows how they manage to sell a $3 'prime' rib dinner" this place is a top notch bakery in its own right.
As soon as you walk in, you can see that they mean business, as if you peek behind the displays you'll see that the bakery itself takes up four times the space of the retail section. I came in with some local friends and their 3 year old and immediately she says "what's that smell? mmmm" Guess that passes the second test. In any case, I had a cheese danish that was just the perfect balance of crust, soft fresh dough, and sweet filling. I'm not even sure that I can find such a bakery in my home town of San Francisco. Sure, there are a number of fancy "patisserie" places, but fewer traditional bakeries of this caliber. They also had an array of various breads and other sweet pastries in the American/European tradition.
However, the best part of this visit was that I had my apple turnover, Danish, and cinnamon stick all at around 1:30PM...no need to wake up extra early for fresh baked, since the stuff moves so quickly out of the door that they keep the ovens going constantly. For a town not often known for "real" food...this place is an oasis in the desert.
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